Does this meet your definition of anti-white radicalism, articulated in ebonics?

Do you think your depiction is fair?

I don't have time or the inclination to read the whole thing, but around the middle of page 9, I see that a part of my prophecy has been fulfilled. It seems like there's a focus on miscegenation and transracial adoption. She references Loving v. Virginia and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. She's clearly interested in issues affecting blacks.

I don't have time or the inclination to read the whole thing, but around the middle of page 9, I see that a part of my prophecy has been fulfilled. It seems like there's a focus on miscegenation and transracial adoption. She references Loving v. Virginia and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. She's clearly interested in issues affecting blacks.

There's a chapter on race, but its in the context of accountability and privacy, the subject of the book.

Regardless, I think my point has been proven. She's black, a philosopher, and a competent and accomplished writer.

Hiroshima was completely obliterated in 1945,
Looks to me like a bit more than a riot could accomplish?

Lets look at Hiroshima now

Pretty good rebuilding job, then again they did have an extra 22 years. Is that it? Is the job almost all done and you just need another 22 years of Negro rule to make Detroit look like Hiroshima? Better get busy, your city is looking worse now than it did then.

Yup, we destroyed it, played a major hand in rebuilding it, and unwittingly contributed to the erosion of our own industrial base. How many of you have a Toyota or Nissan parked in your driveway? Sony, etc TV, DVD/Blu-ray, computer, etc in your house?

With no tax-base to speak of and contaminated abandoned industrial properties, these urban centers are all doomed but we foolishly keep trying to hang onto them and revitalize them. It's called a 'money pit'.

Most of them were already in some measure of decline prior to WWII and many of them experienced race riots in the 40's as blacks began to migrate from the south to get a share of the job boom created by the war (ramped up war production, shortage of men since many shipped off to fight). After the war, the returning soldiers by and large did not return to the cities that were now 'infested' with southern blacks (they had lived and worked alongside northern blacks previously) and in decline again now that the war production boom was over. They headed for the suburbs with their GI Bill backed college degrees and home loans and commuted into the city to office jobs. Blacks who had served or had otherwise made financial and educational advances also started to move to the suburbs. The industrial giants who survived could still operate pretty much unfettered and pay good wages since the German & Japanese industiral base was still in disarray (plus we'd nabbed some of their greatest minds). With increased taxes, stronger unions, greater regulatory control, difficulties in expanding or replacing plants due to the close quarters of the city, they began moving out into rural areas (who are now experiencing the effects of more recent plant closings). The big tax base was now gone. The riots in the 60's were just the cherry on top. In the aftermath, whites & Jews, many of whom had already moved out but maintained their small businesses, closed up shop. Blacks were put into positions of power, but there was really nothing left to rule over. Taking a cue from their white predecessors, they then began lining their pockets with donations, grant money etc and that continues to this day.

I live in a rural area in the 'rust belt' and this area has many of the same problems that these cities have except it doesn't have the population density and most of the denizens are white. There are abandoned factories littering the landscape and most if not all of them would cost millions of dollars to tear down and clean up due to soil toxicity; the building right next door to the one that we own is like that. They're part of the same complex, and were owned by the same company but that building was built in the 1920's and this one was built in the 60's or 70's. The GM plant here just closed down in the Spring and the for sale signs popped up like springtime flowers. Property values have plummeted. There's a huge cocaine and meth problem here and there's an area referred to as 'Little Kentucky' that you don't venture into at night...interestingly, the local whites didn't want those 'hillbillies' moving in next door to them when they started arriving here for jobs in the 60's so most of them clustered in one area. The only saving grace is the land. There's plenty of it. Need a new school? Buy a chunk of land from an old farmer, build the new school and move the kids over. If there's no toxicity issues with the old school, tear it down and you've got a place to build something else in the future...can't do that in the city. You have to have someplace to move temporarily or deal with the environmental issues of abandoned properties. Both are costly propositions in more ways than one. When Chicago and several other cities demolished their low-income hi-rise housing, the inhabitants had to go somewhere, right? Section 8'd right into your nice suburban neighborhood. I lived outside of Chicago toward the tail-end of that and there was tons of Section 8 housing in these sleepy little towns that were previously almost exclusively white.

Well, this turned into a wall of text. I'm going to shut up for now unless I need to respond to others. My father grew up in Newark (family had been there since the 1800's) and when he was here for Thanksgiving I picked his brain for first hand knowledge of the decline since he was around for much of the change and has been in involved in civic and political pursuits (he had some interesting first-hand knowledge of Mayor Addonizio as well as Gibson and James) for many years. My brother-in-law also did two turns as City Manager under James and was responsible for much of the recent downtown revitalization which Booker has taken credit for.

Funny how Wns point and laugh at majority black areas they helped destroy. The major thing that ruined Detroit was racist white cops decided to basically arrest every black man in a club in a black area and then the blacks rioted. After that the army was called in to keep order and more and more whites abandoned Detroit. Basically you all ruined Detroit and then abandoned it.

As for Haiti are you seriously going to claim that the whites just gave the blacks Haiti? France imposed a huge debt on Haiti under threat of invasion and basically destroyed the economy when the economy gets bad nut cases get elected.

(black) Haiti has had hundreds of years to recuperate. It also has had many billions of dollars in aid from many countries in that time but yet it is still a stone-age society.

There's a chapter on race, but its in the context of accountability and privacy, the subject of the book.

Regardless, I think my point has been proven. She's black, a philosopher, and a competent and accomplished writer.

But you would agree that the focus is on racial politics, wouldn't you? Do you think that a White philosopher discussing accountability and privacy would bring up the "African-American" experience? Wouldn't it just be about accountability and privacy - and not really mention anything about "race," per se?

You realize, of course, that for a mainstream White writer or scholar, their best bet is to remain as "race-neutral" as possible (unless the topic is specifically focused on that, and even then, they have to handle it as delicately as possible). But with black writers and scholars (however competent and accomplished they may be), they don't have to be "race-neutral," which is evidenced here. They freely mention their own race and their own "struggle," as that's the central focus of their entire being.

I'll admit I was being rather facetious with the fake "Ebonics," but that's about what it comes down to. It makes me wonder what their philosophy would be if they didn't have the "White man keeping them down." Would they even have one at all?

"No man is an island", however if you're living on one, you rely on trade to survive in this global economy. Haiti used to be a rich colony BECAUSE of trade. Their corrupt leaders have done their own fair share to screw things up too.

She's a Marxist I get it. Smart enough not to bite the hand that feeds.

Feminism ruins everything... especially men.

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There's a chapter on race, but its in the context of accountability and privacy, the subject of the book.

Regardless, I think my point has been proven. She's black, a philosopher, and a competent and accomplished writer.

Yes, I'm sure the crayon-drawings she offered were lovely and earned her a gold star, but I'll wager she had a Jew ghost-write that Liberal, Marxist dreck. We all know 'Groids can't and won't read: it's like sunlight for a vampire or Kryptonite for Superman.

Hmm... a chapter on race and it's in the context of accountability and privacy? Now, that wouldn't be digs at Whitey, would it? You know good and well the only way race can be looked at in the context of accountability is if you're playing the "Blame Game" and "Reparations" is the prize. "Whitey don't gib de black man no space, no suh". "Whitey always be up in a n*gga's bidness". "Gov'ment came an' took mah baby 'cause I smokes de crack". Race is in no way private because it is genetic. It is purely physical, painfully obvious and can in no way be considered a "private" matter. Oh, and by the way, what are any of us in this day and age accountable for? Your Welfare check?

And hey! What about my draems and derams? If I ever figure out what they are, I want some too!

Sadly, I've seen just as bad from white teachers. Letters sent home, items on display in the school, even a few homework assignments. I find that most folks in this country are just barely functionally literate and the best and brightest typically don't become teachers.